Fox News analyst: ‘Start killing Russians’ to save Ukraine (VIDEO)

A military analyst has told Fox News that the only way to turn the tide in conflict in Eastern Ukraine is to “start killing Russians.” The former general alleged there are 12,000 Russian regular troops currently “camped” on Ukrainian territory.

On Tuesday, Fox News Channel aired a segment featuring Robert H.
Scales, a former United States Army major general, who shared his
own plan to settle the Ukrainian crisis. The recipe is simple:
kill the alleged Russian soldiers roaming eastern Ukraine.

Scales acknowledged that an ongoing deployment of American troops
to Eastern Europe is unlikely to change the situation and did not
elaborate on who is supposed to eliminate the fabled Russian
servicemen: Ukrainian troops or American GIs.

Fox News: 3,000 US troops deploying to Eastern Europe, some armor
will be going with them, apparently. To what effect and what do
you expect?

Robert H. Scales: I think to no effect. It’s game, set and match
in Ukraine. The only way the United States can have any effect in
this region and turn the tide is start killing Russians. Killing
Russians by… Killing so many Russians that even Putin’s media
can’t hide the fact that Russians are returning to their
motherland in body bags. But given the amount of support we’ve
given to the Ukrainians and given the ability of Ukrainians
themselves to counterattack against 12,000 Russians camped in
their country – sadly, that’s not likely to happen.

America’s Fox News has been ranked the most
trusted network in the US, according to a recent poll by
Quinnipiac University.

In an
op-ed for fellow News Corp. outlet the Wall Street Journal
published on February 18, Scales called on to the Obama
administration to begin sending the “lethal defensive
weapons” Ukraine needs “to defend itself from further
incursions by Russian troops and Russian-backed separatists in
eastern Ukraine.”

The US Army should also provide the Kiev authorities with
American-made Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS) and train
Ukrainian troops to operate them to hunt down Russian
“command-and-control facilities and armored vehicles.”

Supply of only one weapons system to Kiev troops cannot be
decisive, “But it seems unlikely that Mr. Putin could stand
significant losses in his precious armored forces for long,”
shared Scales.

Given Russia’s “flagging economy,” it is unlikely the
Russian president “would throw the dice and escalate the
conflict with a full-scale invasion of western Ukraine.”

In this way the US could “preserve the sovereignty of a
friendly state (Ukraine) and turn back a tyrant (Putin) who
threatens Europe,” Scales wrote.

A week ago the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine
reported that the number of ceasefire violations in war-torn
eastern Ukraine is dropping, though violations of the Minsk
ceasefire agreement are still being registered.